- On-set everything
was as comfortable as it always was. I've now come to
accept that you do what the last person tells
you because it's all complete chaos and conflict until
then. A huge suprise was the prompter copy being
completely different than anything I had ever
seen before. I really do wonder when they give
everyone the scripts for that morning, why they forget
to give them to me? I digress, save all that for next
entry. Anyway - my cold reading skills certainly come
in handy in these situations.
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- The
southern hospitality of the band was quite
sweet. They were all very shy and soft
spoken, none moreso than Jeremy the lead
singer. These are not your typical
rockstars to say the least. Jeremy was
sans the hat he wore in their video
because his mother asked him not to wear
it. Ha. Don't I know that feeling
buddy. My mother despises my hat. :-) But
being a hat-man myself - I gotta say,
I liked the hat better. It's all about the
branding man. "Oh yeah - that dude with
that big 'ol hat? They rock" But all the
branding logic in the world doesn't trump
mom. :-)
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- Rory,
who founded the group, is in his late 50s
and was literally in tears after the song.
Talk about a Journey. How long has this
guy worked? A die-hard Beatles fan,
they've actually become quite famous in
Liverpool and play there a bunch. Wild
story on these guys and again, as
appreciative as you can imagine. Jesus,
what a horribly disjointed group of
sentences that was. You get the point -
but wow, my head is all over the
place.
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- And
I gotta say once again, as I don't
know how the hell this ever happens, but I
somehow look thinner than I actually am
when I'm on this show? Is that possible? I
mean -hooray for me, but it must just be
the suit or something 'cause I'm
not in good shape. A certain goal
in the time off for sure. My hair's
actually getting so long that I could do
Dewey next year without a wig. Glad
I was able to pull off this season
without having to cut my hair. I'm in a
long-hair type of mood right
now...
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- as far as the band's future I have
to say - the song they performed is so
clearly ready for radio, as-is,
I don't see how they could avoid
getting signed. It's got a perfect hook, a
great mix of 60s and 80s feels, certainly
Beatlesque.. their time is literally
now. And listening to their CD...
MELODY! :-) So nice to hear you again. I
could rave about 'em
forever...
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- To the gang at CBS
I just have to say thank you for allowing me to be a
part of your show for the past year. As the chronic
chronicler I am, it was wonderful fodder for
these pages and a resume builder like no other. With
over 30 National Television appearences under my belt
(granted only 5 of those live) I have mountains
of content to take from this. You will always be my
big break and quite frankly the list of things I don't
have if not for CBS and Steve Friedman is
unbelieveable. From Donna to Tony Soprano to The Price
is Right to Young & The Restless to Up
& Adam... to this:
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